one of the two primary characters is a black cat named niggerman he wasnt exactly subtle in some of his works but yeah like the other guy said rats in the walls is a good read edit i should clarify during the era nigger was not exactly a slur meant to incite hate but it was still very well acknowledged that the word had slaveryera origins my guess is the cat was given the name niggerman as a tongue in cheek joke solely because it was a black cat but i have to believe that even at the time when political correctness wasnt so much as a fleeting thought there would still be a disparagement between nigger and black man